This one got held up by the Thanksgiving holiday.

Two things I need to say about this chapter.

One: If you're a fan of the 'How to train your dragon' franchise you'll most likely have purchased the recently released short 'Gift of the Night Fury.' If you have, you may be thinking I lifted a certain idea directly from that video. The truth is, I had intended to have these events happen in my story months ago. It was, in fact, one of my key points made in the notes I wrote out before I posted the first chapter. The timing is certainly suspect, but if I were a faster writer I could have made it look like Dreamworks had copied me instead of the other way round.

Two: If you're vaguely obsessed (!) with this movie like I am, you may have noticed that Toothless has numerous scars on his body. The film makers put those scars there to correlate to where the ropes had bound him so tightly when he got shot down. I wanted those scars to be reminders to Hiccup of what had happened between them, an unavoidable marker of accountability on his part.

I'm not 100% certain what the next chapter needs to focus on so there will be a few extra days involved in working on plot arc. Hang tight folks, we'll get to the end of this eventually!